Wiktionary
n. the character '''(unsupported: <)'''
WordNet
adv. comparing quantity or quality; "she was less than half her weight after the crash diet" [syn: to a lesser degree] [ant: more than]
Usage examples of "less than".
He surmised it would take less than five minutes to secure Miller's highly divided attention on his proposal, and a ground-shaking, volcanic slam of the door in his face.
It was a good buy when they bought it, but now they're going to have to let it go for even less than they paid for it.
To do anything less than fully embrace the stunning opportunity we hold out to one another would be like waking up to a room full of smoke, opening the window to let it out, and then going back to sleep.
After less than half an hour of it, when my watch said a quarter-past seven, I was wishing to God I had done my planning better when one of my taxis came dashing around a corner to a stop, and the driver called to me and opened the door.
Yet even as she bit her pain sound back into a groan, the hurt seemed far away and unimportant as she stared into the treecat's slit-pupiled green eyes from a distance of less than thirty centimeters.
Before I hand over to James though, I would like to place on record that his performance at the Clarendon was nothing less than brilliant.
I would be less than a man if I weren't at least willing to die for it.